cunobelinus;490306 Wrote: > Would someone please switch on the bulb for a poor unenlightened iTunes > user (that's me) and explain (preferably in words of no more than two > syllables and something approaching every day English!): > > 1. what's so bad about it? > > 2. How does one do what it does on a Mac, including its compatibility > with iPods (and no, I'm not talking MP3 nor yet AAC. I play lossless on > my iPod through the best headphones I can afford/carry at the time) > preferably in a single easy-to-swallow pill, without committing whatever > heinous crimes are the answer to (1)? Use of Parallels/VMFusionWare etc > etc allowed!
It's not that I dislike iTunes; I still use it for managing my iPods. But my iPods are just for car, gym, etc; in the house, I use Squeezeboxen (http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com), so I wanted my library to be FLAC since the Squeezeboxen handle it natively (they transcode ALAC). Plus, a lossless format on the iPods is huge overkill for my purposes, and dramatically reduces how many songs I can carry. Also, I want true ReplayGain tags (album and track), which iTunes won't do. I just didn't see a solution on the Mac that I liked as well as dbpoweramp on PC, and booting a WinXP virtual machine on my Mac is so easy...so I went with dbpoweramp and its four-provider metadata solution. I like its metadata much better than iTunes; it can find cover art for obscure stuff much more often, for example. I rip But I do want to revisit Steve Booth's tools to see if they meet my needs now. Itunes won't until it natively supports FLAC, AccurateRip, and ReplayGain. -- kmr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
